The "Red Carpet" in the movie has 3 floors. When Dylan and Melissa first arrive they are told to use the side entrance. The side entrance leads down to the basement entertainment area. Not upstairs to an office.
Cathedral high school does not have a swimming pool. They had to use the Eastman Hall St. Cloud State University pool.
The cast said the other two schools were Bilington and West Side but the two other schools in St.Cloud MN are Tech High School and Apollo High School.
The Mendota Bridge is 75 miles from St. Cloud (it crosses the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers at Fort Snelling near the international airport). With absolutely no traffic, it would take a minimum of one hour to drive from the Mendota Bridge to St. Cloud.
Catch Me If You Can was filmed in the home town of director Stephen Sommers